•
Elisha Bartlett physician, professor and poet who served in the
Massachusetts House of Representatives and as the first mayor of
Lowell, Massachusetts •
Paul A. Chadbourne, President of
University of Wisconsin, Williams College and the Massachusetts Agricultural College (later
University of Massachusetts) •
Henry H. Childs, Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts and President of BMC •
Mason C. Darling, Congressman •
Pliny Earle (physician), professor of
materia medica and psychology at BMC (the first professorship in mental diseases ever established by a medical college in the United States) •
Harvey Willson Harkness, mycologist and natural historian •
Josiah Gilbert Holland, novelist, poet and newspaperman •
Mark Hopkins (educator) •
Erasmus Darwin Hudson, abolitionist and orthopedic surgeon •
Willard Parker (surgeon), professor of surgery •
Charles L. Robinson, physician, abolitionist, newspaperman, California legislator, Kansas Free Stater and first Governor of
Kansas •
Joseph Pomeroy Root, abolitionist, Kansas Free Stater and statesman •
James Skivring Smith, first African American to receive a medical degree from the institution (and second in the United States) and later President of
Liberia •
George Vasey,
United States Department of Agriculture Chief Botanist and curator of the National
Herbarium == References ==